WASHINGTON ¨C An international crew of four astronauts was back home on Earth on Saturday after nearly five months aboard the International Space Station, returning safely in a SpaceX capsule.
The spacecraft carrying U.S. astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan¡¯s Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov splashed down off California¡¯s coast at 8:44 a.m. local time.
Their return marks the end of the 10th crew rotation mission to the space station under NASA¡¯s Commercial Crew Program, which was created to succeed the Space Shuttle era by partnering with private industry.
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